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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Economic Life and Industries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can't a man get without sheep and goats?
(a) Hut.
(b) Wife.
(c) Land.
(d) Status.

2. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?
(a) The Masai.
(b) The Watusi.
(c) The pygmies.
(d) The Ndorobo.

3. What does a Gikuyu woman call the parcel of land she is allowed to cultivate?
(a) My property.
(b) My garden.
(c) My earth.
(d) My land.

4. What is riika?
(a) Group of Gikuyu elders.
(b) Initiation of a boy.
(c) Age-grading among the Gikuyu.
(d) Initiation of a girl.

5. What is the approximate population of the Gikuyu country?
(a) One and a half million.
(b) A half a million.
(c) Two million.
(d) One million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Gikuyu call their grandmother?

2. The first seeds of the new historical demoralization were planted by ___________.

3. How did the Gikuyus explain the relation of their tribe with the Europeans?

4. How many of the Gikuyu live as squatters on farms on European land?

5. What was the condition that the nine men had to agree to if they wanted to marry Gikuyu's daughters?

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